Walkout

According to the Oxford dictionary: Walkout - a sudden angry departure, especially as a protest or strike.

Come to Bangladesh, a nation who fought hard for it's independence and for its language. It is the land where the roots of International Mother Language Day come from. Yet ask any layman and they wont know that it's an English noun that they have adopted. In fact they think its a Bengali word. Why is it so common and why does everyone know it? Thats because the dear leader of the opposition and mother to 50 % of Bangladeshi's exercises a walkout nearly every other day from parliament.

If it wasn't for the detriment of the country it would be laughable. In the west where physical punishment isn't allowed in schools some unruly children exercise a 'walkout' to the teachers dismay. It's usually funny to all the other kids. They think the child who just walked out is immature and can't hack it. That's the bit that makes me laugh. The ill-educated and unruly, spoilt, madam Khaleda Zia.

Going back to the OED description of the word - there is a difference to the Bengali version - in that it isn't sudden - it's predictive.

As I write Begum Zia and her cronies have just exercised another walkout on the last day of the current session in parliament. I suppose none of them will need to have gym membership as the walkouts will keep them quite fit...